Only if the parts aren’t also subject to tariffs.
It didnt make sense economically before to repair most aging broken devices. Theres a fat chance in hell anything in the past month is going to change that fact.
Only if you buy crap devices. I’ve upgraded my now 7 year old ThinkPad many times (Storage & RAM), 3 new batteries. And it still runs completely fine for everything I or 90% of the people need.
If you bought a throwaway Computer then that’s on you
Ya, I did say most. Im gonna say, good for you, consumer product market is full of crap products that just do not make any sense to repair economically. Just like it probably didnt for your laptop, or mine for that matter which I didnt include.
I bought it for 1000€ back then (T470), I’ve invested around 400€ in it again.
Still has 10 hours of battery life, 2TB SSD, and 32 GB RAM. The i5-7200U is not the fastest by today standards. But it’s enough for what I use. It’s well made, and the keyboard is very nice.
It absolutely made sense economically for me. I also expect still a few years of useful life out of it. (The Win 10 support end doesn’t matter to me, since I’ve already switched to Fedora a few years ago)
I applaud your ability to be a savvy consumer and to stretch your money as far and as well as you can. I wish that it was true for more of the population. At point: what would you have done if something more expensive happened to your laptop? As the cost for repair parts increases less and less people will have the ability to pay to repair their loved devices.
Depends on what would have happened. I’ve dropped it multiple times, and I even once stood on it accidentally. Luckily, the Laptop is built very well, so it didn’t got damaged.
In the first 3 years you’re covered by the warranty if you don’t accidentally damage it.
And for 5 years you can get spare parts from Lenovo for the T-Series, which aren’t very expensive. So I would have probably fixed it with them. After that it would have depended on the availability and the price of the spare part vs buying a new laptop.I even considered replacing it when I bought the last new battery a few months ago. But the new Thinkpads have really small batteries (only 50Wh while mine has 96Wh) and shitty battery life. So it wasn’t that enticing to spend 1300+€ (and that’s usually the crappy base configuration. They charge obscene prices for more RAM/SSD) to buy a laptop which is less useful for me.
